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Opio, Jean Cocteau


Attention: it is advisable to read this book together with a joint. So you can read what the hand can not write. Mauricio
Wacquez (translation and foreword to the book)

was in my teens when I thought that Cortázar was the best storyteller who had walked this planet, that I first learned of this book. According to him, reading Opium had completely changed their view of literature and had led to understand surrealism. For months I searched Opio. Not find it. Over time I became increasingly difficult to read Cortázar, until completely forgot Cocteau's book. Many years later I saw him on a shelf. By then I had tried opium and my interest was not Cortazarian but personal. expecting a book full of dreams, visions dreamlike, surreal imagery. Although I knew that opium, more than a trip like LSD, is a wakeful state of hibernation, expect to find a literary version of Dali. None of that is in this book. Neither delusions of Burroughs in Naked 's Feast. But rather the unfolding of a critical consciousness that observes their addiction. The book has a subtitle: Diary of a detox . As the history of a Scientific, Cocteau has its own blog, but their results are not statistics, but poetry.
For Cocteau detoxification is a slow wound and smoking a perfect masterpiece, formless and judges. Therefore tell a smoker in constant euphoria that degrades is like saying the marble that has been damaged by Michelangelo, the paper that has been soiled by Shakespeare, the silence has been broken by Bach. Cocteau
never betrays the opium: I owe my hours perfect, he says, and laments that instead of improving detoxification, the medicine does not try to turn the opium harmless.
Composed fragments, some notable, other expendable, Cocteau exhibits less vital literary surrealism. Opium, like childhood, allows one to become what he wants.
Opium clears the mind. Never makes one spiritual. Expands the spirit. Not acute.
But his attention is not set in that magical power, but in the cruel battle, the drama of detoxification. Do we wrote this book because it dominated the opium, or opium dominated by writing this book?
advise the patient that he had abstained for a week to sink the head on one arm, stick your ear to the arm, and wait. Searing, riots, sweatshop, armies to flight, flood, the ear hears everything an apocalypse of the starry night the human body.
It is noted in the process with clarity addicted. Warns small traps that brought the detoxification and is able to record these traps to get rid of them. At the end says he is cured, but asks: " smoke again? The answer is almost a declaration of love, waiting there, who is addicted to reading this book.

Opio, Jean Cocteau. Editorial Sudamericana, 2002, 201 pages.